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Georgetown University is one of the country’s top-ranked schools and has a roughly $1.6 billion endowment. But in 1838, the university was facing financial ruin. So the Jesuit priests, who ran Georgetown, sold 272 enslaved people to three plantations in Louisiana for $115,000 — or the equivalent of about $3.3 million in today’s dollars to keep their doors open. That’s how the ancestors of DaVita Robinson, Valerie White, Maxine Crump — all descendants of the 272 and featured in the Video Op-Ed above — ended up in Louisiana. And now, they may become the first people in the history of...

Vice President Mike Pence accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of planning to rip up the President Trump’s State of the Union speech. During an appearance on ‘Fox & Friends’ this morning, Vice President Pence said, “It felt like it” when he was asked if he felt Pelosi had pre-planned the moment: Pence said Pelosi “dishonored the moment”… Pence was sitting about a foot away from Pelosi and could see what she was doing. Speaker Pelosi was on camera practicing ripping paper under the desk (above) and she pre-ripped the paper as seen in photos below: Pelosi is a hero to...

Now that his son Hunter is no longer being paid all that money by Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company, former Vice President Joe Biden wants to ban fossil fuels. At a campaign event in New Hampshire, the Democratic candidate responded to a group of climate protesters by assuring them that he too would phase out fossil fuels if elected president. "These guys are okay," Biden addressed a group of protesters that interrupted his speech. "They want to do the same thing I want to do. They want to phase out fossil fuels and we're going to phase out fossil...

Following a series of sweeping actions to expand access to voting in recent years, a California lawmaker is pushing to require voters to cast a ballot in future elections. The proposal, introduced in the state Assembly on Tuesday, would be unprecedented and probably challenged in court should it ultimately become law. It would place the burden for determining the civil penalty and the ultimate punishment on the secretary of state, California’s chief elections officer.

President Donald Trump gave his speech during this year’s prayer breakfast. He held up a newspaper this morning with the headline “Acquitted!” in Nancy Pelosi’s presence at the National Prayer Breakfast! President Trump then proceeded to rip and shred Pelosi during his talk at the National Prayer Breakfast. https://twitter.com/Lrihendry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1225417937009496064&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativeus.com%2Fvideo-people-suggests-that-nancy-pelosi-is-drunk-during-the-national-prayer-breakfast%2F https://twitter.com/LVNancy/status/1225427794659696641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1225427794659696641&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativeus.com%2Fvideo-people-suggests-that-nancy-pelosi-is-drunk-during-the-national-prayer-breakfast%2F President Trump also said: We’re grateful to the people in this room for the love they show. Not just one religion but many religions. They’re brave, they’re brilliant, they’re fighters, they like people. And some times they hate people, I’m sorry. I apologize. I’m trying to learn. (laughter) It’s not...

In her petty and petulant act of tearing up Donald Trump's SOTU speech Nancy Pelosi did more than render paper. She tore the hearts out of real people. Disrespect for Trump at the SOTU is nothing new. Last year she clapped at Trump but this year was over the top. Let no one think that it wasn't planned. Pelosi tore up the family of Kayla Mueller. Mueller was kidnapped and murdered by bu Bakr al-Baghdadi who in turn was eliminated in a raid ordered by Trump. Trump recognized her parents, who gave him a standing ovation. Pelosi tore up Rocky...

Hours before he cast the lone Republican vote Wednesday to remove President Trump from office on the charge of abusing his power, Sen. Mitt Romney said he fully expected the decision would make him a target of derision for the president and his allies. He didn’t have to wait long to be proved right.

Despite the media and Democrats’ reliance on unnamed political operatives masquerading as whistleblowers, political spin, conspiracy theories, and, in many cases, outright lies, Senate Republicans held firm to the Constitution and acquitted President Trump of each of the Democrats’ sham articles of impeachment. Case closed. Zero wrongdoing. The senate made the right call. When the initial impeachment hearings were assigned to Adam Schiff’s Intelligence committee, Schiff tried to control the narrative by holding secret hearings in the Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF.) The Schiff SCIF tactic was to make sure Republicans could not talk about the testimony without being accused...

Tom Perez @TomPerez Enough is enough. In light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results, I am calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass.

(CNSNews.com) – One day after the Senate acquitted him on two articles of impeachment, President Donald Trump opened his speech at the 68th Annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday by lashing out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats for trying to impeach and remove him from office. “As everybody knows, my family, our great country and your president has been put through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people. They have done everything possible to destroy us and by so doing, very badly hurt our nation. They know what they are doing is wrong,...

President Donald Trump's brilliant plan for Mideast peace has triggered a sandstorm of negativity and deflection from the regular naysayers who attack anything the president says and does. Critics of his recently unveiled peace aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should instead scrutinize the document and recognize its merits. This peace plan was carefully crafted over multiple years under the leadership of Jared Kushner, relying heavily on expert economic analysis, intelligence data and security assessments. Kushner deserves credit for preparing this thorough blueprint for peace between two peoples who have been at war for far too long. Actually, one of...

President Donald Trump will be addressing the Country from the White House after the senate found him NOT GUILTY on both counts in the senate Impeachment Trial. The President has now been FULLY Acquitted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyLbNJMiAvw 

The app that has left the results of the Iowa caucus a shambles reportedly was designed by Shadow Inc., an outfit comprised of a group of political operatives and technology workers who have previously worked for Hillary for America and Obama for America. “We see ourselves as building a long-term, side-by-side ‘Shadow’ of tech infrastructure to the Democratic Party and the progressive community at large,” Shadow states on its website. “We are campaign and technology veterans who have built and implemented technology at Hillary for America, Obama for America, Google, Kiva, Apple, the AFL-CIO, and the DNC.” Shadow, a small...

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope Did You Help the Saints of Old to Become Holy? There is a remarkable statement at the end of the eleventh chapter of the Letter to the Hebrews. It speaks to the unity of the mystical Body of Christ and to the treasury of merit, which extends both backward and forward in time. Hebrews 11 is devoted to reciting the glory of many Old Testament saints. That litany concludes with the following verses:These were all commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised. Since God had...

The Disney Corporation isn't making any friends at a California elementary school this week. After the Emerson Elementary PTA showed the remake of Disney's Lion King, the school received a bill for $250 from the studio. The Berkely area school showed the film as part of a "Parents' Night Out" event, with a suggested donation of $15 from movie-goers. When Disney took notice of the unlicensed screening, the studio's licensing agent, Movie Licensing USA, sent a letter to PTA President...Organizations are required to pay a single-use licensing fee of $250 or an annual fee of $536.. The situation has caused...

VIDEO Imagine you are from a prominent political family and wanted desperately to become President most of your life. You finally have that opportunity and actually turn in what was considered to be perhaps the best presidential debate performance of all time. And then, like an idiot, you listen to your advisers and go easy on the incumbent who takes full advantage of your lapse in the next two debates. As a result you have LOST what should have been a winnable election. Such was the situation of Mitt Romney. So in the next election, a man he snobbishly...

Here's hoping 2020 is the best year yet!! President Trump should put the failed partisan impeachment attempt behind him, then concentrate on winning the 2020 election with wide coattails, then bide his time as the cases against the various coup plotters wind their way through the justice system. Win the election, hold the senate, take back the house!! And then continue the work of making America great again: Build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all!! End DACA!! End sanctuary cities!! End anchor babies!! Continue cutting regulations, cutting government, cutting spending and cutting taxes!! Continue negotiating better trade deals,...

We've had enough political news in half a week to last a month or more, but we know the velocity will only increase until the election. On Monday, Republicans and Democrats in Iowa participated in caucuses. President Donald Trump won the Republican caucuses in a landslide (somewhere north of 97 percent). This was not and is not news. The news coming out of the Democratic caucuses involved a myriad of issues that affected how the votes were tabulated. The result: The first partial results were not issued until 5 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday. It's hard to imagine a worse start...

Governors of both major political parties are warning that a little-noticed regulation proposed by President Donald Trump’s administration could lead to big cuts in Medicaid, reducing access to health care for low-income Americans. The arcane fiscal accountability rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, would tighten federal oversight and approval over complex financing strategies states have long used to help pay for their share of the $600 billion program. Also targeted are certain payments to hospitals that treat many low-income patients. Public comments closed last week amid a chorus of criticism from hospitals, nursing homes,...

Jody Jones, one of President Trump's guests at the State of the Union on Tuesday, criticized Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for ripping up her copy of the speech after Trump was finished. Jones' brother Rocky was killed by an illegal immigrant who had been deported twice before. He was released by California after being arrested despite not being a citizen because of the state's sanctuary law SB54. Jones was asked what his reaction was to Pelosi ripping up the speech in protest on "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday. "It felt like she ripped our hearts out. Everybody...